In a move to prevent universities from farcically enrolling and graduating young men whose athletic abilities are the only reason they are in school, the National Collegiate Athletic Association instituted a requirement that all student athletes get a cumulative SAT score of 700 and maintain at least a 2.0 grade point average. But in a letter to the NCAA, Justice Department lawyer Christopher J. Kuczynski warned that the association's academic standards may "have the affect [sic] of excluding students with disabilities from participation in college athletics." An NCAA spokesman says that the association is in the process of revising its policy "to accommodate students with learning disabilities."

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